Hi from the openQRM-Team,
we are happy to let you know that the openQRM version 3.1.3 was just
released.
It is now available on the sourceforge project page at :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153504&package_id=219800
And here are the changes :
- New windows agent 0.8.6.2 that fixes Typo and un-install.
- Added initrd templates per distribution (AS40 AS30 FC5 and SUSE10).
- Fixed ISCSI automatic-installation support.
all the best + enjoy the fresh release,
The openQRM-Team
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http://www.openQRM.org
- Keeps your Data-Center Up and Running

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 01:31 -0800, Matthias Rechenburg wrote:
> Hey Kris,
>
> the Xen-plugin 3.1.2_03.FC5 is the latest :)
>
Do you have the source RPM so that I can build it for RHEL.
The rpm on SF.net tries looking for files in /usr/qrm/ wherea the RHEL
rpm's installed themselves in /opt/
greetz
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Kris Buytaert <mlkb@...>

I have successfully booted the LiveCD in VMware Server and have
assigned it two nics bound to host-only networking where VMware
provides the DHCP server for this address range 192.168.188.x. I have
also tried NAT and vmnet9.
Everything boots fine, and it appears that the server is up and
running. There is one error in the log of the web interface, but I am
not sure if it is related. Maybe this is always there?
Anyways, I created another virtual machine and set it to PXE boot, but
it does not boot! I followed the instructions just as the web page
that starts on the LiveCD shows. Any suggestions?
--
Kristian Hermansen

I've just upgraded to a fresh 3.1.2 openQRM.
Upon trying to start a virtual environment I noticed that my first node
had gone into maintenance mode by default.
I ended maintenance and my virtual environment started.
When I stopped the virtual environment afterwards, that same node went
back to maintenance mode again.
Anyone knows how that could happen ?
greetz
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Kris Buytaert <mlkb@...>

Hi from Matt,
first i want to wish all of you a happy new year !
Then i would like to share an idea with you :)
You may have already heard of the new virtual-3D world "Second Life".
(if yes, pls skip the next paragraph)
Here a short explanation what "Second Life" is :
"Second Life" is a MMORPG (e.g. similar to "World of Warcraft") where
thousands of users can login simultaneously to a virtual "world" simulation
and live their "second lifes". Unlike other MMORPG's "Second Life" is
not really
a game but a marketing place where users can buy, sell and create all
kinds of objects
(houses, walls, furnitures, plants, animals, ... everything you can
think of).
Those self-created objects are programmable by a special scripting language
and they can have all kinds of diffrent attributes and states.
Basically you can create really "everything" you have in mind in this
virtual-reality.
Here the idea :
The idea is to create a data-center within the "Second Life"
virtual-reality and to "connect"
this to my real-world (physically existing) data-center in my lab
(managed by openQRM).
Basically it is about using "Second Life" as an User-Interface for openQRM.
(if you cannot wait please find a link to a demo-video below)
The challenge :
In "Second Life" all kinds of diffrent objects can be created by the users.
(basically everything in "Second Life" is created by users expect the
land itself)
Those objecs are "primitives" like quaders, cubes, globes, etc.
The objects can have a "content" which can be e.g. one or more scripts
written in
a special "Second Life" programming language (called (LSL).
With LSL users can give "live" to their objects.
I found out that there is a way to let those objects communicate to the
outside (real) world
using a llhttprequest function in LL. Then my plan was to use this
function to map and
connect virtual objects in "Second Life" to real-world objects e.g. the
servers in my lab.
What is working so far :
Ok, to map and connect the virtual objects in "Second Life" to the
real-world
a kind of proxy-server is needed since those objects can only
communicate with
a web-server in the internet but not directly with my openQRM-server in
my lab since my openQRM-server is in a separated network behind a fire-wall.
So I implemented an initial SL-to-openQRM proxy-server based on PHP.
It supports to transfer objects status and actions from the virtual-world to
the real-world including a basic two-sided authentication.
(authentication from SL to the proxy and from openQRM to the proxy)
A server-service on my openQRM-server takes care to feed this proxy with
informations
about the data-center, its resources, virtual-environments, etc.
In the same step it also gets eventual actions for resources or
virtual-environments
from the proxy and applies them on the openQRM-server (e.g.
starting/stopping a VE).
In "Second Life" the virtual-objects (like a Rack with some nodes in it)
can get
their status from the proxy-server and post action to the proxy-server.
As a prove-of-concept I created a small, virtual data-center in a
sandbox (developer playground)
in "Second Live" and captured a video of it. This video shows basic
administrative
tasks like starting a virtual-environment or shutting down a node within
"Second Life"
Here the link to the video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6nRu51gogU
Pls notice there is no audio in this video but everything is explained
in the chat dialog!
If you plan to build your own data-center in "Second Life" please feel
free to
contact me anytime. I can e.g. provide the code for the SL-to-openQRM
proxy-server
and the initial Data-center, Rack and Virtual-Environments SL-objects.
Comments/Questions/Suggestions/further-Ideas are of course welcome ;)
enjoy,
Matt
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http://www.openQRM.org
- Keeps your Data-Center Up and Running

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